The Global Value Chains Initiative seeks to develop an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space. It is a multi-year effort to test and develop the GVC framework with the aims of creating greater analytical precision, intellectual impact and policy relevance. Our efforts include a research agenda, a publishing thrust, the development and dissemination of industrial upgrading handbooks for practitioners, and a series of intensive workshops convened to test and broaden the framework through interactions among network participants and with the broader academic, policy-making and activist communities.

GVC Publications
find publications related to Global Value Chains research.

GVC Initiative Institutions
Institutions include international, regional and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, statistical organizations, industry associations and other groups that have staff in-house or contract with outside organizations to conduct value chain studies.

GVC Initiative Researchers
The research on global value chains can be divided into two very broad categories: research on governance and upgrading and sector case studies.

The GVC Concept and Tools
What is a Value Chain? The value chain describes the full range of activities that firms and workers do to bring a product from its conception to its end use and beyond.

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The Global Value Chains (GVC) Initiative is a network of researchers, activists, and policymakers that seeks to consolidate and foster the GVC perspective, an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space.